Anchoring energy enhancement and pretilt angle control of liquid crystal alignment on polymerized surfaces AIP Advances 5, 097218 (2015);

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Anchoring energy enhancement and pretilt angle control of liquid crystal alignment on polymerized surfaces AIP Advances 5, 097218 (2015);

An axially-symmetric sheared polymer network liquid crystal (SPNLC) device is demonstrated and its performances characterized. Through analyzing the structure of this axially-symmetric SPNLC, we constructed a 3-D model to explain the observed phenomena. The simulation results agree well with the experiment. Two potential applications of such an axially-symmetric SPNLC, namely tunable-focus negative lens and spatial polarization converter, are discussed.